Research Administration Specialist

2 days ago


Boston, Massachusetts, United States InsideHigherEd Full time
Research Administration Specialist

This role provides technical assistance and skilled administrative support to the Associate Deans of the Faculty, faculty and research administrators. The Research Administration Specialist will support training and onboarding efforts for the university grants management process for external funding, in order to create efficiencies and maintain compliance that effectively support an increase in the number and quality of research proposals. The position will provide pre-award capacity building across the college in cases of long absences/leaves. This support includes assisting with preparing budgets, ensuring compliance with the sponsor's requirements and University policies. The Specialist will also work with the Director of Research Administration to establish training and onboarding guidelines, tools and workshops in grants management that support and improve research administration, such as onboarding new administrators, setting up training workshops and orientation programs for staff and faculty. They will assist the Director in developing and maintaining the CAS website sections on research opportunities and support. The Specialist will report to the CAS Director of Research Administration and will work closely department research administrators.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support research administrators and faculty with training and/or onboarding. This includes maintaining training materials and researching and communicating new policies, procedures and requirements by attending Sponsored Programs workshops, webinars and trainings online.
  • Oversee the process and assisting CAS pre-award teams when their team does not have capacity to provide coverage for absences or need support for large grants when appropriate.
  • Manage and document the internal grant approval and implementation process by overseeing the delivery of applicable forms, signatures and documentation for proposal submission.
  • Work with CAS Director to find ways to communicate CAS research output which includes website updates, semi and annual reports, funding reports, CAS research supported events.


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